Improvement in sash-holders



e. H. JOHNSON & F. BOTTNER. Improvement in Sash Holders" No.124,958.

Patented March 26,1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,958, dated March 26, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Sash-Support, invented by GEORGE E. J OHN- SON and FREDERIK BOTTNER, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fair-field and State of Connecticut.

The invention consists in a novel arrangement of a pivoted flexible pawl for supporting carriage and other window sashes, as hereinafter described.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of part of a window-frame of a carriage-door, and side elevation of part of a sash and our improved holder. Fig. 2 is a top view of the holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A represents the window-frame, which, in the case of a landau or landaulet would be also part of the door, rising only a short distance higher than the seats. B is the sashstile. O is a flexible India-rubber pawl, pivoted to a plate, D, by ears E. F'is the cord for lifting the pawl or wedge-bar off the sash. G is the auxiliary coiled-wire spring, and H is the eyelet by which the hole through the front of the frame for the cord is bushed, the eyelet being screwed into a. screw-threaded tubular projection, J, of the plate D.

The door and sash of a landau are shown in this example to illustrate the usefulness of our improved sash-holder in a capacity for which no other support known to us will answer practically, the sash being required to extend far up above the door, and be held so as to close the space between the two parts of the car-,

riage-top when the latter is closed; but our said holder is useful also for holding the sashes of houses,.&c., as well.

The dotted lines show the position .the pawl assumes when, after engaging the sash, the latter is pulled down to have the face of the end L come against the side of the sash, and the lower side to rest on a support for looking it very firmly, as is necessary in a carriage or omnibus. The said end L bears better against the sash in consequence of the long corner than it would without said corner, for without it the lower part of the end would be considerably rounded in consequence of rolling down with the sash.

The auxiliary spring G may be used or not, as found best, and other devices instead of the cord F may be used for raising the pawl ofi' the sash.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The flexible pawl O and cord F,'combined with sash, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the pawl (J, spring G, and an attaching-plate, D, substantially as specified.

3. In combination with subject-matter of above claim, the plate D, extension J, and eye- I let-bushing H, substantially as specified.

GEORGE H. JOHNSON.

Witnesses: FREDERIK BOTTNER.

OHAs. H. STEVENS, BYRON ATHINGTON. 

